tion is Black. How, then, can all-white parliamentary Party, the beneficiaries of these votes, morally claim fully represent communities like these?
The needs to win more than 100 seats to form the next Government. ana we are confident that at least a quarter of these will be won if the support Black voters is galvanısed. Black Sections in the Labour Party / are seeking to do just that, despite our defeat at Conference.
But without Black candidates the task will be doubly, if not trebly Solitu, Leicester Leicester South, East, Edmonton Slough seats with water thin servalve majorities large Black electorates prime targets for objectives.
I hope I don't need to remind that million of the eight million votes gained DY in the last General WELC from Black people. If it were not support of the Black vote the Labour Party would have been pushed into third place behind the Black voters have proved to be the most oyal of all Labour sup porters. Yet there is still no Black MP, no Black member of the National Executive and no Black official in regional or national offices This scandalous omthe represenMISSION tation of Black people is longer acceptable in the Labour Movement We have won the moral argument through Black Sections guaranteed representation at all levels. Our de. mand now is that constituency Parties Black eleclarge torates who have spoken needs all the support it can get. For further Committee, 278 4444 ext 2545/2599/2448.
stridently their commitment to equality opportunities OT deliver Black candidates to represent them in the next General campaign.
In return, we as Black activists, will be seeking ensure tual number of Afro-Asian candidates as well as an equal number ot mer and women among their must remember that No Representation leads to Alienation. And Alienation gave us the uprisings against unemployment, police harassment, race
An Socialist Action 14 December 1984